Subaru is designed to overcome subtitle websites such as subscenter and torec which give free subtitles but require multiple mouse clicks, in the browser and in the desktop to choose the series, season, episode and version and then open the downloaded file and unzip it. Moreover, they require registration, or otherwise the user must "wait" for several seconds before each download.
Subaru automates this process.
Currently Subaru works with the hebrew subtitle site subscenter but can be easily extended by developers familiar with Python, HTML and some jQuery. It would probably be easiest to extend it to work with Bsubs because subscenter is the Hebrew version of Bsubs.
- Python 2.7 (other versions might work as well)
- Requests to request URL from subtitle websites
- Spynner to browse subtitle websites in headless mode
- PyQuery to parse and query HTML
- FeedParser to parse subtitle feeds
I wrote Subaru on Windows 7 but it should work on any platform with Python.
After installing all the requirements, you need to clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/yoavram/subaru.git
You should open subscenter.py and change the constants:
OUTPUT_PATH- subtitle files (.srt) will be downloaded to this folderFAVORITES- a list of hebrew names of favorite series to download from the latest feed
There are two usage modes:
This mode is run by simply calling
python subscenter.py
Subaru will get the latest episodes feed from subscenter and search it for the series in the FAVORITES constant. It will then download subtitles for every episode it finds.
In this mode you can specificaly download an episode and even specify the version:
python subscenter.py <series-name> <season-number> <episode-number> [version-keyword]
series-nameis the name as it appears in the URL of the series page. It is all lowercase and dashes (-) are used instead of spaces, without any other punctuation (examples:modern-family,greys-anatomy,the-big-bang-theory)seasnon-number/episode-number: no need for preciding zero (1not01).version-keywordis an optional argument. Subaru will only download subtitles that have this keyword in the filename. Use this to specifiy the version you want. Exampes:LOL,DivX.
If the episode was not found a proper message will appear, so feel free to use this to check if a subtitle has been uploaded.
If you want to add support for another site please create a new file <site-name>.py Try to respect the function names in subscenter.py if you can.
I'm not sure that this project needs to be abstracted or anything like this - the code is very simple, mainly due to the amazing strength and usability of the modules used (see requirements).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Subaru, of course, is a fine car company and is not affiliated with this project. The name is just a reference to the automation of the subtitle downloading process - auto-sub in Hebrew sounds like "Subaru car".
subscenter and other names are also not affiliated with this project, and the content downloaded using this software is under the license of the site from which it is downloaded.